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Grover Norquist: 9-9-9 puts 3 needles in taxpayer’s arm…
Bursting the Cain bubble: two minutes of Cain saying stupid stuff…

WSJ caught in paper-buying scheme to boost EU circulation, senior exec resigns in disgust…
Politico reporter fired for plagiarism!

Goldman Sachs to employees: avoid Occupy Wall Street…
Occupy Cleveland protesters granted public event permit…
POLLS: Most Americans support..
TONY BALOGNA: Lawyer for woman pepper sprayed demands charges against NYPD official…
Occupy Wall Street Has Already Won…

[T]he visceral emotions that accompany citizen activism generate not only an energy that can change politics but an incoherence that is easily mocked. OWS is not a Brookings Institution report with five carefully researched policy points and an appendix of data. It is a leaderless movement, and it can often be painfully simplistic in its economic critique, lacking in subtlety in its political strategies, and marred by fringe elements whose presence distracts and demeans. Yet, the point of OWS is not to be subtle, parsed, or nuanced. Its role is to drag politics to a different place, to provide the exuberance and energy upon which reform can take place.

HAHA, NEXT QUESTION: WH Press Sec. Carney on secret kill list: “not going to engage in a conversation about that”…

A libertarian camps out with Wall Street occupiers…

My agreement with these folks went no further, however, than a common diagnosis of the problem. Their proposed solutions — more campaign finance restrictions and curbs on the freedom of firms to lobby — showed disregard for the freedom of speech. They also don’t seem to understand that getting government more involved in the economy always gets business more involved in government. Outside the small minority of Ron Paul supporters at the park, none of the occupiers saw smaller government as the answer to cronyism and corporatism.

Baby, we’re all anarchists now…

It shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s experienced with leftist activism that the group of discontents included a bunch of anarchists and anti-authoritarians who are used to a certain horizontal process of talking and decision-making in a group. It’s called consensus, it often involves twinkling fingers to signal agreement, and it’s useful for deciding things like “Which park should we occupy?” The basis for that first meeting, for the sequence of events, was a walking away from organizers. By now consensus and the oft-mocked twinkling fingers have become part of a common language on the left, but now some people without a background in the process are using it as a means of control.

Autonomous action has been the engine of Occupy Wall Street, providing what Hendrick Hertzberg describes as two of the three “shots of adrenaline” — the third coming from a deranged senior police officer. Instead of providing a basis for discourse and autonomous action, the General Assembly has become a tool of imposed accountability, treating consensus as if it were a way to implement policy upon a population.

“Newt Gingrich was provocative to the point of looking like the ‘Bulworth’ character”
BULWORTH: OBSCENITY? “we got Newt blaming teenage moms”
Ron Paul campaign: Herman Cain Lied About His Fed Position…

JEEZ LUIS: 71-yo grandmother suing Colorado Springs police after drug raid tactics cause heart attack..
Search turned up no drugs, no arrests made, grandma hospitalized for several days…

SF bankers become first TARP recipients to be charged with fraud…

Debate seating chart centered on Cain, Romney… “The arrangement gives Cain a star turn in the top-tier and puts another scene-stealer, Ron Paul, close to the center of the action.”
NH GOP debate @8PM EST on Bloomberg TV – Live Stream…

Kanye briefly attention whores at Occupy Wall Street; Charisma +2, still a gay fish…

VeriSign seeking new .com/.net takedown powers, without court approval..

The next PayPal? Square processing $2B in payments per year, has signed up 800K merchants…

BOSTON MASSARREST! Occupy Boston Veterans clash with police, scores arrested…
VIDEO: BPD attacks Veterans for Peace flag bearers…
COORDINATED: Cops in at least 5 cities threaten crackdown on Occupy Wall Street…
#OccupyDesMoine – 40 arrests & more police brutality reported…
“Yes, I’m tweeting from jail.”
It was ugly and fast…

How commuting robs you of time and money…

You’ll note that most 30-year-old couples today, about 10 years into adulthood, don’t even have $125,000 in net worth. And they probably drive around quite a bit in expensive financed cars, mostly as part of a self-imposed commute. These facts are directly related!

VIDEO: Seattle cops ticket cab driver for #Occupy horn honking support…
Occupy Wall Street and Occupy the Fed: two sides of the same coin…
Protests spread to Britain…

Secret US Court Order demands email data for WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum…
White House memo outlines “Insider Threat Task Force” to fight information leaks…

2008 CNN article painted Steve Jobs as deadbeat dad, unapologetic, idea mooch…

When Jobs had his own illegitimate child, also at the age of 23, he too struggled with his responsibilities. For two years, though already wealthy, he denied paternity while Lisa’s mother went on welfare. At one point Jobs even swore in a signed court document that he couldn’t be Lisa’s father because he was “sterile and infertile, and as a result thereof, did not have the physical capacity to procreate a child.” He later acknowledged paternity of Lisa, married Laurene Powell, a Stanford MBA, and fathered three more children.

[...] Often Jobs would suddenly “flip,” taking an idea that he’d mocked (maybe your idea) and embracing it passionately – and as his own – without ever acknowledging that his view had changed. “He has this ability to change his mind and completely forget his old opinion about something,” says a former close colleague who asked not to be named. “It’s weird. He can say, ‘I love white; white is the best.’ And then three months later say, ‘Black is the best; white is not the best.’ He doesn’t live with his mistake. It evaporates.” Jobs would rationalize it all by simply explaining, “We’re doing what’s right today.”

SILICON SAINTHOOD: Tech execs who once cursed Jobs pour on adulation…
Brilliant, yes, but he wasn’t an Einstein…

Amish largely untouched by U.S. financial crisis…

Due to the absolutely retarded nature of the media monopolists, HoT will be supporting Black This Out from now until Oct 19th…
VIDEO: People will rise…

NASHVILLE: Hundreds rally to support Gibson Guitar…

Free State Project starts accepting Bitcoin…

Report details “cancer clusters” of TSA agents operating scanners…
EPIC v. Department of Homeland Security…
FLASHBACK: Los Alamos scientist warned TSA scanners shred DNA…

#OccupyCleveland makes it to the BBC…

Many of the protesters on Thursday said they had voted for President Barack Obama in 2008, but had become disillusioned by his inability to breach “political roadblocks” set up by the Republican party.

Tea Party groups push for focus on Occupying the Fed…
DALLAS: End the Fed group led by Alex Jones merges with Occupy protesters…
MOVEMENT MERGER: Tea Party patriots, libertarians, “End the Fed” and Ron Paul supporters throw in…
Ben & Jerry’s: “deepest admiration to all of you who have initiated the non-violent Occupy Wall Street Movement”
PETTY: NYC mayor Bloomberg gripes about protesters hurting economy, tourism…
VIDEO: Rap News covers #OccupyWallStreet (sorta)…